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Published: 2012-06-25 02:02:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 47253; Favourites: 3327; Downloads: 0
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A quote that I came up with myself while thinking about some personal things. I decided that I wanted to write it down, make it look good, and show it to other people and inspire them to also be happy despite what may be wrong in their lives.
Color Choices: I took my colors from the flags of the two sexualities stated, which are here ([link] ). Gay is a rainbow, straight is black and white, but I chose to make the straight shades of grey because even being straight there is no black and white, but shades of grey and so many variations.
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Fonts used: Helvetica Neue, Cochin ([link] ), Fontin ([link] ), Fertigo Pro ([link] ), Futura
Note: This was originally intended to be a personal portfolio piece, but it is now available as a print here on Deviantart for purchase, if you're so inclined. If you're interested in a size larger than what is offered through the print shop, send me a note and we can work something out.
For sale: This design is available for purchase on a number of products at [link]
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Edit: Thanks everyone for all the faves, comments, and for front page. This is my first deviation to get there and the one with the most faves/comments. Thank you all so much!
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Comments: 679
If I could blow this up and put a copy everywhere I would. Simply fantastic~
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Very nice concept. I really like the message.
I just think that you should edit your comment about your deviation stating the reason why "straight" was put into grayscale. Apparently people don't read other comments and keep thinking it's because being straight is dull and boring, which isn't your opinion. Just let people know that heterosexuality is related to grayscale/black/white just as homosexuality is related to rainbows.
I'd also recommend you to state why happy was written in a colorful way. People are also thinking that being happy is being gay because of the colors, when this was actually not the purpose. (:
Other than that, I really like it. You did a great job. Keep up the good work. I can't wait for the day when everyone will accept others for what they are, without judging them by their appearance, sexuality, etc.
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Mmm, I'd love to have a T-shirt with this
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If my sister saw this she'd cry tears of joy. :3
Hats off to you ^FT^
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This is very inspirational~ I love it ^^
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Well that's what I got out of it...
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WHAT ABOUT HIS BI?
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aw omg that`s actually pretty awesome o3o
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I love this! It's a very nice quote
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I always thought heterosexuality should be pink and blue, given those are the 'default' colors for the two 'default' genders. Bixesuals have pink, blue, and purple, right? I've never understood the 'shades of gray' thing, because regardless of them being all gray, they're still many different shades, indicating more than two of anything (plus, to certain colorblind people, the gay flag and the 'hetero' flag would look exactly the same).
Anyhow! That aside, it's a nice message.
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Colorblind people can't see certain colors, that doesn't mean they can't see any color at all.
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As I understand, there are many types of color-blindness. Protanopy and Deuteranopy are 1% of the male population each, Deuteranomaly being the biggest, I think 4 or 5% of the male population and a little percent of the female population. Like, less than 1% of the female population. All of these types are those that can't see certain colors, each having different hues (or I think that could be wavelengths) they can't see.
But, there ARE people who are fully color-blind: it's roughly 0.005% of the male population. I guess it'd be kind of hard to come across one.
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Very well spoken.
I'm a lesbian and very happy with my girlfriend.
This made my morning with her all that more special.
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I love this 
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This is now in my favourites.
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And coincidentally enough happy is written in a colorful way, like gay, while straight is black and white.
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I think the artist was trying to depict how being straight isn't something people really consider or find unique and it sort of.. blends in and some people class it as "Normal." I could be wrong though, you raise a good point. A lot of people will consider being gay, bi, trans etc to be 'different' too... 
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Straight peopel have a black and white flag
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True, very true. However, I'm curious as to why the colour schemes are what they are.
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hm, why the heterosexuals chose black and white?
no idea, I also used to have no idea that bisexuals had their own flag 
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I don't think there's such a thing as someone being "normal." I think that being straight is just as unique as being gay. Otherwise, that's sorta arrogant of the gay community to say they're so much more special than people who are straight, right? I mean, when someone considers something normal, it's because they've seen it all too much, so it's their opinion, right?
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That's a very good point 
Personally I think it doesn't matter of the person's sexuality or gender. As long as they're nice to me then I love them.
Sorry for the overuse of smileys, everything I said just seemed so vicious without them..
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(Don't worry, I seem like a bitch without my icons. )
But yeah! I totally agree as well. People can be whomever they choose to be. It quite honestly doesn't matter to me... but if they start hitting on me, there needs to be some boundaries.
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Recently thats is what I am thinking-most important is to be happy, not how you look or who you are with.
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i completly agree~~ but i do believe you can choose whether to be straight or gay.
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Except medically, you can't.
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Medically, you can't choose? Seriously? Here I thought we had control over our own bodies...
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Well, you see, we have these things called "reflexes" and "unconditioned responses."
Unconditioned responses include things like kicking our leg when a reflex point below our knee is hit, and other involuntary actions.
Sexual arousal is an involuntary, unconditioned response, or a reflex. And what triggers it is physically impossible to choose.
You can choose who you have sex with, but that has nothing to do with ORIENTATION.
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I believe that it does. Reflexes can be honed and conditioned in such a way that they react differently than their original response to it's trigger. I think that the same can be said of sexual orientation, where depending on the person, one would need more or less "training" to gain the ability to condition this reflex to the desired effect. I also think that unintentional changes in sexual orientation can result from lifestyle choices and/or personal experiances throughout life that sway a person one way or the other. The things that happen in prison between formerly straight men is an example of how what arouses a person sexually can change under certain circumstances, to the point where the new orientation can seem natural to them.
I personally believe it to be a frame of mind, but I wouldn't assume I'm 100% right in my thoughts since it simply cannot be proven one way or another, but there are consistancies between this and similar psychological responses that give me the feeling that choice is real. Not to say one way is more valid than another, but I believe the choice is always there for the willing, one way or another. This topic... I could go on and on haha... sorry to bombard you like this
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I'm sorry, but science and psychological and sexual studies have snow that this type of theory is incorrect. Efforts to "reprogram" or "fix" gay people to a more "normal" sexual response have literally been going on since the 1800s, and still go on to this day. Any psychologist or behavioral therapist will tell you that there is no merit to it, and that it is temporary.
I'm sorry, but you are wrong.
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There has been little success, but as with anything involving psychological therapy, it requires an actual willingness to change. The main reason many professionals will tell you there is no merit to conditioning in such a way is that if they don't, they run the risk of gaining alot of enmity from the lgbt. I should say though that I don't personally think changing orientation would be to "fix" or "return to normal" but instead to get where you want to be, be it gay straight bi or asexual. I also believe it requires alot of "self therapy." Many people involved in being "fixed" back to straightness are forced into this position by family and/or friends/peers, which would cause a natural resistance to the therapy because others want them to change, but they truely don't want or need to. Nobody needs to change, but I think the possibility for change exists for those who wish to.
Realistically speaking, I suppose the threshold to the theory I have would be actually a conversion into bisexuality or asexuality, rather than going from gay to straight, now that you say "temporary", since you may still retain feelings from your original orientation unless you denied all desires altogether... eh.
One thing I do know is that I don't know everything. Depending on where you get your information from, certain theories are denied or reinforced... so I'll just agree to disagree with you for now, untill one way or another is determined as pure fact.
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I'm sorry, but you're still not very well up on your scientific theory on the matter. I am. And you are incorrect.
It is a scientific fact that these programs suffer an abnormally high suicide rate when the desired change does not take place. So, to say that there is a lack of "Willingness to change" is ignorant.
Also, you seem to incorrectly define "orientation." A male who is sexually attracted to other males is a homosexual male. Period. If he suppresses his feelings, gets married, fathers children, and never touches another man sexually his entire life, this does not change his orientation. His orientation is towards men, so he is therefore a homosexual man as defined by any and all psychiatric communities.
So, you prove your own argument wrong, because if the person "still has desires" from their original orientation, then their orientation has not changed.
Because that's the definition of orientation.
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::Incoming wall of text::
Sexual orientation for many people is ambiguous. There has been no discovered way to truely accurately determine orientation other than by the labels people give themselves, which may or may not fall in line with their actual attractions or behavior. This homosexual man who suppresses his feelings for men to be with a woman... if he can effectively copulate with this woman and have kids and is attracted to her at all sexually, enough so that he can have a lasting relationship, how can he be truely defined as homosexual accurately?
My theory, more or less, suggests that sexuality is fluid, and can change depending on various factors that occur throughout life.
Also, I'm not saying I support the people who want to use therapy to "fix" people's sexuality by saying their current one is somehow wrong. I'm saying it would be a matter of choice for the person who wants to change. It has nothing to do with the people who consider homosexuality a disease, causing people to feel illegitimate for how they feel. I don't see how my saying one would need willingness to change is ignorant. People who are put into programs that condemn them when they don't change having a tendancy towards suicide has nothing to do with what I'm saying. That's another subject entirely.
My impression is that a person's sexuality can change involuntarily, and as such, may also be changed voluntarily if you work at it.
What if a straight virgin man has desires for women, but for whatever reason decides to settle down with a man and live out his life sexually and romantically with this man? Does this mean he is still purely heterosexual? Even if he had to suppress his feelings for women, it still means he somehow developed new feelings for men, enough at least so that he could remain in a lasting relationship... but any and all psychiatric communities would still say he is a heterosexual man, reguardless of how this man lives his life? Or would this mean they were wrong about him when they originally labeled him?
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Actually, for people who have actually studied the issue the meaning is not ambiguous. Sexual orientation is defined by who you are orientated to have a sexual response to. Whether you act in accordance with that orientation has no bearing on what that orientation is has no bearing on your orientation. So yes, a man with a homosexual orientation who suppresses his feelings for men and marries and has sex with a woman IS accurately and truly defined as homosexual bu the American Psychological Association, by virtue of his orientation.
My other point, that you missed, is that claiming the people who were so desperate for change they committed suicide when the change did not occur and their orientation did not change, did not change because they "Didn't want to change" really doesn't make a lot of sense. They were not condemned by the program. They were condemned by themselves because they believed what the program said was true, that they could change.
Your "impression" is medically, psychologically, scientifically wrong, and has no basis in fact.
And yes, if a straight virgin man has sex with another man, marries another man, and lives out his entire life with that other man, in defiance of his orientation, he is heterosexual man. Because, I know what 'heterosexual' means.
This is actually common. Lots of people, especially victims of sexual abuse where the abuser was of their opposite gender, the trauma makes it hard for them to have normal sexual relations with members of the opposite gender, so they engage in homosexual sexual activity. This person would be completely heterosexual. Another person might have been abused by a member of their own gender and believe that being touched sexually by someone of their own gender makes them gay, and continue to seek out sexual relationships with members of their own gender. This person is heterosexual too. (And yes, responses to sexual trauma vary so both are possible.)
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Okee dokee. Sorry to have bothered you. To be honest, yeah haha I am rather ignorant to the whole issue. I likely confused it with simple arousal and behavior which is something that may fluxuate depending on situation. I just figure it would have to be impossible to honestly determine the orientation of any given individual accurately at this point in time, given the current studies that I know of, but I'm likely wrong there.
Either way, I instigated this whole mess and I foolishly jumped headlong into something I don't know enough about to make any statements, so I'll also set aside my pride and not pretend I'm somehow right or that you're wrong. If it makes you feel any better, you've at least given me a grasp of how to think about it all... if in a rather snarky way XD. Mind if I ask you some questions on the matter to clarify certain things by note?
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No, go right ahead.
If it helps: Sexual therapists use the "Kinsey Scale" to define orientation. Basically it states everyone is on a scale, with 0 being completely heterosexual and 6 being completely homosexual. The general consensus is that there's really no such thing as a 0 or a 6. Most people are 1s and 5s.
So, it IS complicated. We're not in these little boxes jumping in and out from one to another. But, whatever you are on the scale, that's what you are.
And sure, send me a note and ask whatever you want.
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I agree completley with your artwork
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I had to fave this for reasons. It's very well put and really well designed.
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As my father always quoted from his favorite cartoon:
"I YAM WHO I YAM."
Who is anyone else to tell you different? They're not you.
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